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Illustrative and Surreal Work of Takeshi

abduzeedo — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 14:27:43 +0000

Emeric Trahand also known as Takeshi is a New York based art director and artist from Saint Etienne, France. Emeric's illustrative work is renowned for its surreal feel, the quality of its photomontages as well as the light treatments and colourful compositions. We also have already feature one of his works for our Wallpaper of the Week.

Although Emeric has had a rather short career, beginning as a freelance illustrator in 2006 in France, he has already been commissioned by a diverse array of major international clients: Ubi Soft, Emi Music, TBWA Helsinki, Adidas, Cacharel, Grimbergen, Toyota, Swatch, Chase Bank, Bank of America, ASICS, Subway, Aquafresh, Lays, Radio Shack, Spike TV, VH1, Asher Roth, the Cool Kids, Cuervo, GrandPrix de Montreal, English National Opera, Société Générale, Maaf Insurance, Groupama Insurance, Ventury Paris, Cacharel, and Sony BMG.

Decembre

Cream

Pigeon

Promotion material for the band

G-SHOCK vs Takeshi

Blind - Depthcore

Cita

NOIR

For more information about Emeric, visit his Web site at http://cargocollective.com/stillontherun

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Abduzeedo is a blog about design. There are all sorts of articles for those who want to look for inspiration. Also you will find very useful tutorials for the most used applications out there, with a special selection of Photoshop Tutorials and Illustrator Tutorials. You can get in follow us via Twitter at @abduzeedo

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Worldwide Photography #25: Nice

marcos333 — Thu, 30 Jun 2011 19:23:00 +0000

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we're going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Nice, France.

For the next week we're going to feature Amsterdam, Netherlands so if you want to send your submissions for the next Worldwide Photography, please tweet the tag #wwphoto and the link of the photo(s) on twitter. I'll be wainting for your submissions :)

Vince&Nick

dmcantrell

Charlie Kinyon

lightboxdc

scott burnham

rick ligthelm

FamilyMan5k

VancityAllie

Ced M.

Sweetsia

MaximeF

Histgeo

Frinkiac

Surya Narayanan

HGruber

Histgeo

The Library of Congress

tracyzhangphoto

Concorde Hotels Resorts

Jonathan Gill

HermandoDiaz

MsShirahime

d'Alk

snapbits

rick ligthelm

Concorde Hotels Resorts

Paolo Margari

icopythat

HagleyParkJon

Auré from Paris

p!ng

HagleyParkJon

Philipp Korting

fabujulous

photoola

niépce1826

About the author

My name is Marcos Torres, I'm Graphic Artist from Porto Alegre, Brasil. You can get to know more about me by acessing my Personal Website or by following me on Twitter: @marcos333. You can also see some of my last projects at my Flickr.

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Worldwide Photography #13: Toulouse

marcos333 — Thu, 07 Apr 2011 14:06:51 +0000

Worldwide Photography is a series of posts where every week we're going to show a city or location around the globe bringing the coolest photography samples of it. The photographs authors are all credited right above their pictures. Today feature: Toulouse.

For the next week we're going to feature Kingston, Jamaica, so if you want to send your submissions for the next Worldwide Photography, please tweet the tag #wwphoto and the link of the photo(s) on twitter. I'll be wainting for your submissions :)

Stéphane Giner

meneldur

Mario De Leo

bridgink

uihsan

Mario De Leo

E.L. Malvaney

» edouard

j.labrado

akazmie

danjeffayelles

isabelle.puaut

invisible cities

chr.labat

salvi.photo

chr.labat

lluis58 / Lluís Sànchez Celma

villerose4431

Bárbara Porto

chr.labat

Minais (Ausente)

villerose4431

Curufinwe Xiane

Mario De Leo

Thomas Grascoeur

Jimmy Rigg

Peter Gutierrez

chr.labat

Jean (tarkastad)

villerose4431

Jean (tarkastad)

Vietnam_Pictures

Philippe AMIOT

astazou

jeygr2001

DIDS'

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Geometric Illustrations by Guillaumit

abduzeedo — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 09:53:01 +0000

Guillaumit is an illustrator, graphic designer and motion designer from France. His work combine geometric forms , rigid color scheme and and funny cartoons characters, trying to build an universe both ludic and meaningful.

For more information about Guillaumit visit his Web site at http://guillaumit.tumblr.com/

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Awesome Illustrations by KOA

abduzeedo — Tue, 09 Nov 2010 02:18:57 +0000

Cramm Olivier is a graphic designer and illustrator from France. After a long time of self-education he attended to graphic design school for 3 years and then school of communication. Cramm also worked in a french agency as Art Director, where he made 2D animations, web design, graphic design and other creative projects for over 5 years.

For more information about KOA, Olivier's nickname, we highly recommend that you check out his Web site at http://portfolio.koadzn.com/

Illustrations

His world is a universe of happy and colorful oppressive chaos where monsters are masters and humans are slaves. Monsters fascinate him since he is a little kid. His universe is full of barbed women, dwarfs hip hop masters, clouds who laugh about humans, flying fishes who want to be rock stars, fearful werewolves, ridiculous ghosts, strange dogs, shintoist gods, religious symbols, occult symbols, tattoos...

Commercial

Personal Work

Misc

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Cité A Docks Student Housing

fabiano — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:36:09 +0000

We have all seen a lot of projects using containers, but I can say that among all I know this is one of the most complete in terms of architecture, use of materials, location and primarily for the use, a student housing.

The Cité is the Dock a project by Cattani Architects located in Le Havre, France. A four-story building that houses 100 apartments made of old shipping containers. All rooms with bathrooms, kitchen, free wifi and has been carefully designed to have a great heat and sound insulation. The way the containers were distributed creating empty spaces and common areas between the flats makes Cité A Docks a building a kind familiar, and the location near the water creates a very modern and industrial feeling.

“How do I prevent students, prospective tenants, they feel put in the box? Compelling needs have arisen. Necessary to conceive of a lightweight, transparent, and certainly not solid. Hence the idea of independent living, to avoid the stacking effect.” – Cattani

The building designed by the metal structure is spread over four floors, which are distributed on the 100 studios. The first level was raised from the ground. In this way, the units here guests can enjoy the same privacy afforded to units on the upper floors. All the apartments overlook a garden inside and are equipped on both ends of the glass walls that allow natural lighting of spaces.

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I'm from Brazil, co-founder of Zee with Fabio. Nowadays I like to play with Fireworks, Photoshop and improve my skills in CSS. If you wanna request some posts, please feel free to contact me or follow on Twitter.

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I-Way, The Car Simulators Building

fabiano — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 11:56:19 +0000

Opened in 2008 the I-Way is a building dedicated to car and racing lovers. It is a place where the public can do simulations in race cars as Endurance, Raly and even Formula 1. The design of this sensational construction, located in Lyon - France, is from Cyrille Druart architects.

Made of concrete slabs, it provides an internal environment focused on the simulators, the cars are camouflaged with the colors of the building and seem to be part of the building. I can't imagine the feeling of sitting in those cars, but I'm sure that it must be awesome. Besides this main attraction, the complex I-Way also offers fitness rooms, bar (alcohol-free), restaurant, conference rooms and offices.

With its eighteen car simulators engineered by the aeronautics industry and made available here to the public for the first time, I-Way resolutely positions itself as a top-of-the-range venue.

Photos by Cyrille Druart.

To explore a bit more of I-Way check this PDF out.

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Galilée, an Amazing Office Building in France

fabiano — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 18:15:46 +0000

The office building located near Toulouse in France, is a project by Studio Bellencour Architects. A work with an amazing composition, use of shapes and materials!

Bellencour Architects managed to join the straight and hard lines of two office buildings with a layer of concrete so light that looks more like paper. This twisted form, which unites the building marks the entrance of the complex, controls entry of light in offices and even prevents overheating in summer. The proximity of the airport and the urban context without many building are referenced in the horizontal lines, made with aluminum. Incredible and modern, these are my conclusions on this building!

The difference of shape and the resemblance of materials make fraternal twins out of these two buildings, which works to maintain options for future users of the space. - Studio Bellecour

The aesthetic of Galilée results from a combination of an interpretation of these urban rules, the immediate aeronautical context, and from the environmental requirements given in the specifications of the UDZ. - Studio Bellecour

Thanks Archdaily for the tip!

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Graphic Design Work of Xavier Bourdil

abduzeedo — Wed, 12 May 2010 12:52:57 +0000

Xavier Bourdil is a young graphic and web designer from Paris, France. After studying literature in Bordeaux he decided to changed the direction of his career and become a graphic designer. He has been working hard to fulfill his dream since he made that decision and, as we can notice, he is already making his dream come true, having some of his works featured on publication such as Computer Arts, Design Collector, Designdiary and now on Abduzeedo :)

You can find more information about Xavier's work at his website, the Trust in Elements (http://www.trustinelements.com/).

Some works

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Lucien Rose Complex in France

fabiano — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 13:49:21 +0000

This housing complex in Rennes, France, was a project idealized by Edmond Herve, Rennes' mayor from 1977 until 2008. Last year, 2009, the project was finally conceived by Atelier du Pont Architects as an example of modern and social architecture.

The Lucien Rose complex was built keeping the historic and the identity of its neighborhood, the Thabor Botanical Gardens. The complex consists in 81 housing units splited into 6 buildings carefully projected, with great care with the materials, colors and scale. All that to perfectly insert the building into the city context. Everything matches and create a feeling of unity between the buildings and the urban space.

Besides the worries with the aesthetic of these buildings, the group of architects also offered a library to the local community, a building with cool singularities witch abuses of natural lightening and the contrast among neutral and vibrant colors. Besides being a cultural space well inserted in an area with a great flow of people.

And to complete the awesomeness of the project, they used sustainable elements. Solar energy, water re-usage, plants that demand less water, solar heating to piped water and further details that make this space a reason of proud to the community of Rennes.

Photographs: Luc Boegly

Thanks archdaily.com for the tip!

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Incredible and Creepy Photo Manipulations by Aja Jones

abduzeedo — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:24:16 +0000

I was surfing on Behance when I found one incredible image of a monster. It was quite creepy but really well done, so I decided to check out the author's portfolio. Aja Jones is a digital artists from France with a incredible set of monsters and macabre creatures design. All of them are creative photo manipulations, mixed with paintings and illustration. I would love to see his design process on them.

For more information visit Aja Jones Behance page at http://www.behance.net/aJonesa or his DeviantArt at http://ajonesa.deviantart.com/gallery/

I am a Macabre Artist - Aja Jones